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Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (1992).

Matthew Connelly, "Seeing beyond the State: the Population control Movement and the Problem of Sovereignty," Past and Present 193:1 (2006), 197-233.
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Kevin Doak, A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People (2007).

James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed (1998); see also the reviews by Jane
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Quentin Skinner, "The State" in Terence Ball, James
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Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions:
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Yuri Slezkine,"The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or how a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review 53:2 (1994), 414-452.

Ronald Grigor Suny, "Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations," Journal of Modern History 73:4 (2001), 862-896.

John Torpey, The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance,
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